Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

We understand that workers are doing it tough right now, and that's why we think that they should get a sustainable, real wage increase as well. But I'll tell you who isn't doing it tough, and that's Senator Pauline Hanson. She is jetting around the country in her billionaire friend's plane. Starting in Queensland, where she tells workers she's on their side, she heads down to South Australia, where she tells seniors she is fighting for them, and then she gets on the plane over to Canberra, where she votes against higher wages for workers and against cheaper medicines for seniors. Now she says she wants to govern with the Liberal Party. Yesterday, Senator Hanson confirmed Australia's worst kept secret. This former Liberal Party member, who votes with the Liberals more than 80 per cent of the time, confirmed that she would be 'very happy' to use her numbers to help elect a coalition government at the next election. The truth is that the Liberals can't form government without One Nation. One Nation can't form government without the Liberals. They are a ragtag coalition who will hurt Australian workers.